The Forumer's Ashes

Step up and compete. This is the thread where I sim a series of matches between a team of English CWers against a team of Aussie CWers, in real time, with each match of the actual Ashes. Each match will get day-by-day reports in the style of my reasonably well-recieved ICC thread.

You'll also need to tell me whether you're an England or Australia supporter if I don't already know. If you notice that your side needs a particular sort of player more than others, it'll obviously work in your favour to sign up as that player.

If you happen to support a team that doesn't compete in the Ashes (you poor bastards), you should go ahead and sign up anyway. I'll want your player for warm-up games for this summer, and if this works, it could well become an ongoing competition following any real series between sides with enough forumers, such as NZ v India next year.

Founder of ESAS - Edgar Schiferli, the best associate bowler
A follower of the schools of Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett and Benaud
Member of JMAS, DMAS, FRAS and RTDAS

when you're winning, you have friendsscores and dozens, real friendswhen you're winning, never lonelywhen you keep winning

Well yeah Tendy is probably better than Bradman, but Bradman was 70 years ago, if he grew up in the modern era he'd still easily be the best. Though he wasn't, can understand the argument for Tendy even though I don't agree.

In the end, I think it's so utterly, incomprehensibly boring. There is so much context behind each innings of cricket that dissecting statistics into these small samples is just worthless. No-one has ever been faced with the same situation in which they come out to bat as someone else. Ever.